Word: continente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The guests found the Victoria Plaza equipped with every convenience the most demanding tourist could expect: airconditioning, the continent's fastest elevators (710 ft. a minute), bilingual telephonists and barbers, a Helena Rubinstein beauty parlor, bedsitting rooms furnished with thick English rugs and draperies, and running ice water. Pride...
West Africa, until recently a hotspot on the Dark Continent, is now quietly digesting gains made in its nationalistic struggle.
BRITAIN, enmeshed in far-flung colonial police actions and still half broke, made plain by its answers that its 1953 contribution will fall about 40% below its Lisbon estimates for men, 50% for aircraft. Instead of reinforcing its army of the Rhine, the Tory government will present next week'...
In troubled Africa, a 50-50 bet for the future is the Gold Coast, a British dependency the size of Wyoming, scooped out of the continent's equatorial west. Since last year the Gold Coast has had 1) a written constitution, 2) a Legislative Assembly of 75 elected Negroes...
U.S. Religious Traditions. "In the beginning of our own nation, at the very time when the revolutionary movement on the continent of Europe was planning to destroy all influence of religion on public life, it is a remarkable fact that our founding fathers based their own revolutionary action on the...